A last minute reprieve saved Fyodor Dostoievski (aka Dostoyevsky) from the firing squad and gave the world a novelist of unsurpassed brilliance. (Other accounts state it was a mock execution) in any event he served time in Siberia which formed the basis for his novel The House of the Dead.

An atmospheric painting by Ralph Bruce that originally appeared in Look and Learn issue 632, February 23rd 1974. zPolitical zHistorical zCrime/Horror zLck